Fire is reported to have razed a section of a popular plank market at Pipeline Street in the Ikotun area of Lagos on Thursday, December 26.
A statement by the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, said the inferno affected four shops.
Oke-Osanyintolu said that the prompt response of the Agency’s Dolphin Response Team from Igando, and efficient coordination of other responders at the scene, curtailed the spread of fire to adjoining buildings.
According to him, preliminary investigations could not ascertain the cause of the fire as at time of reporting the incident.
The LASEMA permanent secretary also disclosed that there was no loss of lives and no injuries were sustained as a result of the incident.
This followed a report of another fire outbreak at the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, FIIRO, office in Oshodi earlier in the day.
LASEMA confirmed that the fire ignited as a result of overheating of the generator.
The fire was also curtailed and there was no loss of life due to the incident and no injuries were sustained.